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Undecidable Translational Tilings with Only Two Tiles, Or One Nonabelian Tile UNDECIDABLE TRANSLATIONAL TILINGS WITH ONLY TWO TILES, OR ONE NONABELIAN TILE RACHEL GREENFELD AND TERENCE TAO 2 Abstract. We construct an example of a group G = Z × G0 for a finite abelian group G0, a subset E of G0, and two finite subsets F1;F2 of G, such that it is undecidable in ZFC whether Z2 × E can be tiled by translations of F1;F2. In particular, this implies that this tiling problem is aperiodic, in the sense that (in the standard universe of ZFC) there exist translational tilings of E by the tiles F1;F2, but no periodic tilings. Previously, such aperiodic or undecidable translational tilings were only constructed for sets of eleven or more tiles (mostly in Z2). A similar construction also applies for G = Zd for sufficiently large d. If one allows the group G0 to be non-abelian, a variant of the construction produces an undecidable translational tiling with only one tile F . The argument proceeds by first observing that a single tiling equation is able to encode an arbitrary system of tiling equations, which in turn can encode an arbitrary system of certain functional equations once one has two or more tiles. In particular, one can use two tiles to encode tiling problems for an arbitrary number of tiles. 1. Introduction 1.1. A note on set-theoretic foundations. In this paper we will be dis- cussing questions of decidability in the Zermelo{Frankel{Choice (ZFC) axiom system of set theory. As such, we will sometimes have to make distinctions between the standard universe1 U of ZFC, in which for instance the natural numbers N = NU are the standard natural numbers f0; 1; 2;::: g, the integers Z = ZU are the standard integers f0; ±1; ±2g, and so forth, and also nonstan- ∗ dard universes U of ZFC, in which the model NU∗ of the natural numbers may possibly admit some nonstandard elements not contained in the standard natu- ral numbers NU, and similarly for the model ZU∗ of the integers in this universe. However, every standard natural number n = nU 2 N will have a well-defined counterpart nU∗ 2 NU∗ in such universes, which by abuse of notation we shall arXiv:2108.07902v1 [math.CO] 17 Aug 2021 usually identify with n; similarly for standard integers. If S is a first-order sentence in ZFC, we say that S is (logically) undecidable if it cannot be proven within the axiom system of ZFC. By the G¨odelcompleteness theorem, this is equivalent to S being true in some universes of ZFC while being false in others. For instance, if S is a undecidable sentence that involves the group Zd for some standard natural number d, it could be that S holds for the d d standard model Z = ZU of this group, but fails for some non-standard model d ZU∗ of the group. 1Here we of course make the metamathematical assumption that the standard universe exists, so that in particular ZFC is consistent. Of course, by the G¨odelincompleteness theorem, this latter claim, if true, cannot be proven within ZFC itself. 1 2 RACHEL GREENFELD AND TERENCE TAO Remark 1.1. In the literature the closely related concept of algorithmic unde- cidability from computability theory is often used. By a problem S(x); x 2 X we mean a sentence S(x) involving a parameter x in some range X that can be encoded as a binary string. Such a problem is algorithmically undecidable if there is no Turing machine T which, when given x 2 X (encoded as a binary string) as input, computes the truth value of S(x) (in the standard universe) in finite time. One relation between the two concepts is that if the problem S(x); x 2 X is algorithmically undecidable then there must be at least one instance S(x0) of this problem with x0 2 X that is logically undecidable, since otherwise one could evaluate the truth value of a sentence S(x) for any x 2 X by running an algorithm to search for proofs or disproofs of S(x). Our main results on logical undecidability can also be modified to give (slightly stronger) algorithmic undecidability results; see Remark 1.12 below. However, we have chosen to use the language of logical undecidability here rather than algorithmic undecidability, as the former concept can be meaningfully applied to individual tiling equations, rather than a tiling problem involving one or more parameters x. In order to describe various mathematical assertions as first-order sentences in ZFC, it will be necessary to have the various parameters of these assertions presented in a suitably \explicit" or \definable” fashion. In this paper, this will be a particular issue with regards to finitely generated abelian groups G = (G; +). Define an explicit finitely generated abelian group to be a group of the form d Z × ZN1 × · · · × ZNm (1.1) for some (standard) natural numbers d; m and (standard) positive integers N1;:::;Nm, where we use ZN := Z=NZ to denote the standard cyclic group of 2 20 order N. For instance, Z × Z21 is an explicit finitely generated abelian group. We define the notion of a explicit finite abelian group similarly by omitting the Zd factor. From the classification of finitely generated abelian groups, we know that (in the standard universe U of ZFC) every finitely generated abelian group is (abstractly) isomorphic to an explicit finitely generated abelian group, but the advantage of working with explicit finitely generated abelian groups is that such groups G are definable in ZFC, and in particular have counterparts GU∗ in all universes U∗ of ZFC, not just the standard universe U. 1.2. Tilings by a single tile. If G is an abelian group and A; F are subsets of G, we define the set A ⊕ F to be the set of all sums a + f with a 2 A; f 2 F if all these sums are distinct, and leave A ⊕ F undefined if the sums are not distinct. Note that from our conventions we have A ⊕ F = ; whenever one of A; F is empty. Given two sets F; E in G, we let Tile(F ; E) denote the tiling equation2 X ⊕ F = E (1.2) where we view the tile F and the set E to be tiled as given data and the indeterminate variable X denotes an unknown subset of G. We will be interested 2In this paper we use tiling to refer exclusively to translational tilings, thus we do not permit rotations or reflections of the tile F . Also, we adopt the convention that an equation such as (1.2) is automatically false if one or more of the terms in that equation is undefined. UNDECIDABLE TILINGS WITH ONLY TWO TILES 3 in the question of whether this tiling equation Tile(F ; E) admits solutions X = A, and more generally what the space Tile(F ; E)U := fA ⊂ G : A ⊕ F = Eg of solutions to Tile(F ; E) looks like. Later on we will generalize this situation by considering systems of tiling equations rather than just a single tiling equation, and also allow for multiple tiles F1;:::;FJ rather than a single tile F . We will focus on tiling equations in which G is a finitely generated abelian group, F is a finite subset of G, and E is a subset of G which is periodic, by which we mean that E is a finite union of cosets of some finite index subgroup of G. In order to be able to talk about the decidability of such tiling problems we will need to restrict further by requiring that G is an explicit finitely generated abelian group in the sense (1.1) discussed previously. The finite set F can then be described explicitly in terms of a finite number of standard integers; for 2 instance, if F is a finite subset of Z × ZN , then one can write it as F = f(a1; b1; c1 mod N);:::; (ak; bk; ck mod N)g for some standard natural number k and some standard integers a1 , ::: , ak, b1, ::: , bk, c1, ::: , ck. Thus F is now a definable set in ZFC and has counterparts ∗ FU∗ in every universe U of ZFC. Similarly, a periodic subset E of an explicit d finitely generated abelian group Z × ZN1 × · · · × ZNm can be written as d E = S ⊕ ((rZ ) × ZN1 × · · · × ZNm ) for some standard natural number r and some finite subset S of G; thus E is ∗ also definable and has counterparts EU∗ in every universe U of ZFC. One can now consider the solution space Tile(F ; E)U∗ := fA ⊂ GU∗ : A ⊕ FU∗ = EU∗ g to Tile(F ; E) in any universe U∗ of ZFC. We now consider the following two properties of the tiling equation Tile(F ; E). Definition 1.2 (Undecidability and aperiodicity). Let G be an (explicit) finitely generated abelian group, F a finite subset of G, and E a periodic subset of G. (i) We say that the tiling equation Tile(F ; E) is undecidable if the assertion that there exists a solution A ⊂ G to Tile(F ; E), when phrased as a first-order sentence in ZFC, is not provable within the axiom system of ZFC. By the G¨odelcompleteness theorem, this equivalent to the assertion ∗ that Tile(F ; E)U∗ is non-empty for some universes U of ZFC, but empty for some other universes. We say that the tiling equation Tile(F ; E) is decidable if it is not undecidable. (ii) We say that the tiling equation Tile(F ; E) is aperiodic if, when working within the standard universe U of ZFC, the equation Tile(F ; E) admits a solution A ⊂ G, but that none of these solutions are periodic.
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